Browse articles by date

Tag Archives: lecture

The Center for Public Scholarship’s 37th Social Research conference “Cons and Scams: Their Place in American Culture,” will take place next Monday and Tuesday in the Theresa Lang Center (and feature Media Studies professor Noah Isenberg!). *NEXT WEEK* Monday & Tuesday, April 23 – 24 37th Social Research Conference “Cons and

In Conversation: Derrick Adams with Alvin Hall and Dexter Wimberly Thursday, February 8, 2018 – 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm $10 general / $5 members and students The Theater at MAD Join Derrick Adams for a conversation with journalist Alvin Hall exploring the artworks and

THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: WRITING ABOUT MUSLIM WOMEN with Humera Afridi, Roja Heydarpour, Raad Rahman, Sarah Khan, Sumaya Awad & Noel Pangilinan Join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for a special reading with the Open City fellows. Open City documents the pulse of metropolitan Asian America as it’s

Rutgers University Department of Italian is pleased to invite you to our 2-day international symposium later this week. Visual Culture in and out of Crisis will take place on Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th. All sessions are free.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2017 AT 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, University Center, UL10563 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 “Opening Up About Alzheimer’s,” the story by a Manhattan couple living with the disease, will be presented by The New

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017 AT 7:00 PM The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 Join us as the Nation Institute, the Gould Family Foundation, and The New School present the second annual Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture on the Fate of

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017 AT 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM University Center, UL10463 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Guest Speaker: Lawrence Weschler, former staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. Two-time winner of the George Polk

Playing with Fire: Iran, Ethnography, and the Question of Genre Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 6:00 pm The Bark Room at Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 2 West 13th Street, Room M101 Join us for a talk with writer, artist, filmmaker and anthropologist Roxanne Varzi,

For this presentation I will discuss my soon to be released book, which examines the vulnerability of the human body and asks how human beings contend with loss. Employing psychoanalytic theory and literary analysis, Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects tracks three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet

WHO: GLUE Programs and International Center of Photography WHAT: Event, “What is at Stake?: Questions of Community and Visual Culture,” which focuses on the intersection of visual culture and the complex and contradictory notions of community WHEN: Friday, October 6, 9am to 7:30pm WHERE: Starr

VISUALIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE: MODELLING, DISCOVERY, DISPLAY Public Lecture Wed. September 20 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM 63 5th Ave, UL 105 The relationship between knowledge and visual forms has changed as tools and platforms used for data display, discovery, and modeling have become ubiquitous. These practices raise

Shannon Mattern writes about archival images, gives lecture at MIT Faculty member Shannon Mattern wrote a short essay on archival images for PROPS, a zine focused on image-based methods published by Yale and MIT. She’ll also be giving a talk, “Mapping’s Intelligent Agents,” at the MIT Department

Anti-Conference Conference: Undermining the Reproduction of Privilege, CfP A transdisciplinary biannual graduate conference organized by the German section of German and Romance Languages and Literatures Department of Johns Hopkins University December 1st and 2nd 2017 – Baltimore, MD This conference addresses the shapes resistance takes within

Media Studies faculty member Shannon Mattern will take place in a “curated conversation” with various artists and designers as part of the lead-up to the 2018 Lahore Biennale. In addition, she’ll be delivering a keynote address at the “Mapping in Arts and Humanities Research” symposium

You are invited to attend as the audience for this invitation-only roundtable discussion hosted by The Middle East Institute at New York University this Wednesday, April 5th. The roundtable discussion with Diya Azzony, a prominent musician and producer in the emerging music industry of Saudi

In an era increasingly defined by the ubiquity of visual information—from the billions of photos posted each day on social media to ever more omniscient techniques for surveilling bodies and crowds—vision is no longer merely a human ability, but a set of practices employed by

Faculty member Shannon Mattern was one of the invited speakers at Verge, the annual Parsons Transdisciplinary Design conference. She spoke about “Invisible Interfaces.” On March 3, she’ll be serving as a respondent at the GIDEST “Our Own Devices” workshop — held here at The New

Dr. Shannon Mattern will be speaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on February 16 for the launch of the new “Shelf Life” issue of Harvard Design Magazine, which features one of her long-form essays. http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/43 This issue of Harvard Design Magazine investigates and unpacks the contents, containers, and

Shannon Mattern recently delivered the closing plenary lecture at the conference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association: http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2014/06/27/in-rare-fashion-my-rbms-plenary-presentation/

Dawnja Burris recently presented at the annual Institute for Critical Animal Studies Conference on April 12 at Rice University. Her paper entitled “Animal Instances: Representation of and Relationship with the Non-Human Animal” deals with the ways in which imagery and representation of the non-human animal

Matt Ratto Prompts, Parts, and Publics: Critical Making as practice, as research program Thursday, April 18th, 7pm 6 E 16th Street, 12th Floor, Main lab Please join us for a lecture by Matt Ratto, Assistant Professor and director of the Critical Making lab in the